Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs, sentence 19
Egyptian doctors set broken bones, stitched wounds and wrote medical books; some cures worked and others were spells.
Who acts: Egyptian doctors, cures, others · What happens: set, break, stitch, write, work, be · To what, where: broken bones, wounds, medical books, spells
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient Egypt: pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Egyptian doctors, cures, others), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egyptian | Egyptian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 doctors | amod |
| 2 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 bones | amod |
| 5 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stitched | punct |
| 7 | stitched | stitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 8 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stitched | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wrote | cc |
| 10 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 11 | medical | medical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 books | amod |
| 12 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wrote | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 worked | punct |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 cures | det |
| 15 | cures | cure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 worked | nsubj |
| 16 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 spells | cc |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spells | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 spells | cop |
| 20 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 worked | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Egyptian doctors | broken bones | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient bone=Result | ||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | stitch | past | Egyptian doctors not said here | wounds | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Product | ||||
| 4 | write | past | Egyptian doctors not said here | medical books | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 5 | work | past | some cures | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | others | spells | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:history:006-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs.lesson:19.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.4.
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